listography press

Elle UK

Woman's Day

CNN Entertainment

"A lot of that has to do with the fact that we're just inundated with
so much on the Internet," says Listography.com's Lisa Nola, (who, yes,
keeps a lot of lists). "(It's) not just the books that are on The New
York Times best-seller list anymore -- there are books that are
self-released, or through Amazon, or (other) online means, and there's
so much more for people to follow throughout the year. At the end,
they sort of turn to their trusted sources to weed out the year's
worth."

Author Umberto Eco, who examines lists in culture with his book "The
Infinity of Lists," said in a 2009 interview with Der Spiegel that
"the list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it." If you embrace that
line of thinking, as Listography.com's Nola does, then year-end lists
can be seen as more than a holiday habit of ours, brought out at the
end of the year along with the Christmas lights.

Mollie Makes

dailymail.co.uk

Lindsay Lohan was spotted sitting outside Hals Bar and Grill in
Venice, California yesterday. The actress was actually enjoying some
time sitting in the sunshine with two friends and spent most of the
time there writing in her friend's Listography book. The journal type
book is full of lists to write that can be shared with other people,
from favourite movies to fortune cookie suggestions and Lindsay barely
lifter her head from it. She wrote notes in the book while chatting to
her friends.

WTMD

Nylon

For victims of writer's block, a blank sheet of paper can be really
intimidating. Even more daunting: An entire notebook of unmarked
pages.
And while we've heard of numerous cures (and even tried a few), none
seem to obliterate the problem-- until now.
Enter The Listography Series, a collection of journal-like books
determined to get your writing down stuff. Created by Lisa Nola, the
range is intended to make writing lists, recording memories, and
keeping track of goals less daunting.
Our favorite: Music Listography, which includes pages like "List The
Songs That Drive You Crazy," and even a place to write down your
secret guilty pleasure tracks (Leighton Meester's "Summer Girl,"
anyone?)
Too bad we still don't know what to do with that stack of
barely-touched notebooks... -- ALI HOFFMAN

lifehacker

At first glance Listography looks like a to-do list web site but it's
a list-making tool made for sharing lists of all sorts. The premise of
Listography is that you can create a biography of sorts through lists
about your life -- movies you've enjoyed, books you've read, places
you've traveled and plan to travel -- and share them with friends,
family, and the greater world. You can of course use Listography as a
sort of wikipedia-inspired master to-do list but the service was
definitely designed with a more personal sort of sharing in mind.

makeuseof.com

Alternative Press

Planet Green: Discovery Channel

Listography.com is a lot more than a promotional website for the
books--it's an online repository of lists made by people around the
world. Anyone can sign up and it's free, so it's a fantastic green
alternative to a book.

Listography.com offers the best of all worlds. No paper means my
lists are greener. You can keep each list private or make it
public. All around, it's a great way to make all sorts of lists and
keep track of everything--without requiring paper or buying a
book. And while a web-based repository may have been limiting a few
years ago, cell phones allow people go paperless with the web anytime,
anywhere.

It's the ultimate forum for making and sharing lists, and users
don't hold back. People list everything and anything, including what
they did on a given day, bucket lists, likes, dislikes, places they
want to travel to, and dates of haircuts. My lists are a repository
for memories and events in my life--a sort of virtual scrapbook that
groups events and ideas thematically rather than chronologically.

Teen Vogue

KFOG

The Boston Globe

For some, like Walquist, lists are all business, with no sentimental
undertone. But for Lisa Nola, author of "Listography Journal" and
cofounder of listography.com, lists mean more than moving toward the
future: They help remember the past. "Some people say it's obsessive
or too nostalgic," she says. "But when you know that your memory is
going to fade, and you're going to lose these things, you just want to
keep them for yourself." In her book, people can record the places
they've lived or the names of their pets; Nola created all the lists.
"Listing is a way to honor something," she says. "So if you create a
list of your favorite high school memories, or about your grandmother,
you're honoring that time or that person by creating this little
monument for it."

USA Today, Pop Candy

I've come across a few books lately that offer more than words on a
page -- they're full of activities that creative types of all ages
might appreciate. Whether you're looking for something to do or just
trying to get a jump on your holiday shopping, keep these titles in
mind: Are you obsessed with making lists? Here's the journal for you
-- it arranges your life into more than 80 lists, from "Your Favorite
Toys You Played With As a Child" to "Your Personal Fashion Trends Over
the Years." (True confession: I went through a serious suspenders
phase in 1993.) Accompanying each list is a cute, Napoleon
Dynamite-esque illustration by Nathaniel Russell. Paper-haters can
make lists online at listography.com.

Huffington Post Blogger

The internet is a treasure trove. I'm constantly amazed by the
astounding information and tools that are out there. I've found
several sites that provide great services that help boost happiness,
in one way or another. I've used all of these myself and have found
them extremely useful. ... 5. Listography - Just the other day, I
wrote about why I think keeping lists can be a useful tool for
building happiness. Listography makes it easy to keep all sorts of
lists as a way to organize thoughts, set goals, and keep
accountability.

Yahoo's Today in Tech

It's up there with exercise, better diet, and travel. Even if you
don't publicly proclaim a list of new year's resolutions to the world,
most of us take stock this time of year, even if we make silent
goals. And for the less orderly among us, chances are good that "get
organized" is somewhere on the list. Tech can help. Every year,
there are more tech gadgets, online tools, and software to help you
organize your personal and work lives. Here are five ways you can use
tech to help organize every aspect of your life. ... 4. Make
lists. Every day. One trademark of organized types is that they make
lists, all the time. You don't need a desktop filled with colorful
Post-It notes to jot down your to-do's. Instead, use Ta-Da Lists to
make and update lists. Listography is another place to make lists to
help you keep track of your resolutions and any other life lists. Try
CircleUp to organize group to-dos, like soccer team carpools and snack
lists and work project tasks.

Craftzine

I loved the book High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and subsequently the
movie starting John Cusak because the main character would always have
a "Top 5" list, whether it was a song for certain situations or list
of his ex-girlfriends. The new book Listography: Your Life in Lists by
Lisa Nola (published by Chronicle Books) lets you transcribe your own
favorites into this journal. With beautiful illustrations by Nathaniel
Russell, you can make lists of things like your favorite movies,
bands, cartoon shows, etc. But I love the really fun lists like "list
the things you'd save if your home was on fire" or "list things you
think everyone should do if money is not an issue". You can also make
up your own lists in the back and if you're like me, list out the
craft projects you want to tackle this year.

Current Television

Wired Magazine, The Listening Post

Listography lets you create a free-form list of anything
that strikes your fancy and post it for the world to see, in a matter
of seconds (it takes longer to think of what to put on a list than it
does to create one). Given the propensity of music nerds to create
lists of things a la High Fidelity, it's not surprising that nearly
2,000 of Listography's lists have to do with music (high school
mixtapes, best basslines ever, songs to play at my funeral, and so
on). In a couple of weeks, Chronicle Books will release a book
version of Listography (preview), with a children's version slated for
next summer. According to Lisa Nola, co-creator of the site and
co-author of the book, people create musical lists as a way of
processing memory: "I think there is something to music not just being
about the present, but capturing really distinct time periods from our
past. The music we listen to is autobiographical in the way a smell
can be."

Shape Magazine

3 Ways to Improve Your New Year

Whether you want to be creative, lose weight, get a fresh outlook, or
all of the above, these books can help. Listography: Your Life in
Lists. This quirky workbook encourages you to record your personal
highlights--big accomplishments, random acts of kindness, favorite
cds. As you scribble, you'll find yourself reflecting on your
past--and making plans for the future! Buy it...if you want to give
yourself a boost by recognizing all the things you've achieved.

Boing Boing

In this first episode of Boing Boing TV: Listography (a book and
website by Lisa Nola about documenting your life in lists) Your life
can be defined in a series of shareble lists. Terrifying but true.
There is a new website and book called Listography and the idea is
like scrapbooking for people with attention deficit disorder. So a
list may document your favorite bands or your past lovers or your
lasts: last break up, last thing you lost, last kiss. You create time
lines, capture eras and reveal who you are through your favorites at
listography.com. Here a user named Jordana lets the world know what
languages she wants to learn, which foods taste the best to her, and
which gadgets are at the top of her wishlist. Listography is now out
on paper through Chronicle Books and you can find the website at
listography.com.